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Summary

Contains the unofficial correspondence of Elihu Root (Family and Official Papers are
held in the Library of Congress). Extensive collection of personal correspondence
and correspondence related to his office-holding and various public appointments and
activities, these include: Chair of the New York State Constitutional Convention;
1917 Mission to Russia; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Metropolitan
Museum of Art; New York Public Library; legal cases in which he served as counsel.
Collection also includes a substantial number of photographs.

Biography

Elihu Root was born in Clinton, NY on 15 February 1845 and died in New York, NY on 6
February 1937. He attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and
University Law School of New York. He served in the following positions: Member
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883
- 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator
from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries
Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to
Russia, 1917. Root was awarded the following: Nobel Peace Prize, 1912; Roosevelt
Memorial Medal for Administration of Public Office, 1924; Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Medal and Prize for Services to Peace, 1926. He was a member of the following
organizations: British Academy; Istitut de droit International; American Academy of
Arts and Letters; Commission of International Justice appointed by Council of League
of Nations to prepare plans for a permanent Court of International Justice;
Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the U.S. in International Conference on the
Limitation of Armaments; Committee of Experts convened at Geneva 1929 to revise
Statute of Permanent Court